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The Corresponding Secretary read the following let- 

 ters, viz : — 



From Charles W. Ilolman, New York, February 28, asking 

 for the Proceedings for the library at Westeras, Sweden ; Bibli- 

 othekariat der K. Bayerischen Akademie, October 1, 1859, present- 

 ing various publications ; John Evans, Washington, January 18, 

 Alpheus S. Packard, Jr., Brunswick, Me., January 19, Theodore 

 N. Gill, Brooklyn, N. Y., January 23, and Edward Norton, Al- 

 bany, March 16, accepting Corresponding Membership; AYilliam 

 J. Sloan, Surgeon U. S. A., Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 

 14, proposing to establish relations between the Society and the 

 Historical Society of New Mexico. 



On motion of Mr. Binney, a committee was appointed 

 to take into consideration the subject of an Annual Ad- 

 dress before the Society in May next. The President 

 appointed Messrs. Binney, Lyman, and White the 

 Committee. 



Messrs. H. Farnum Smith, F. C. Ropes, and Augus- 

 tus Lowell, all of Boston, were chosen Resident Mem- 

 bers. 



DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



January 4, 1860. Three fossil corals from Canada, near Niagara Falls ; by 

 Dr. H. Bryant. A forked-tailed humming-bird {3feUisuga LangsdorJii^YieiU..)-^ 

 by Mr. Charles L. Flint. The humerus of an albatross ; by Mr. Kilby Page. 



January 18. Lower jaw of a sperm whale, sixteen feet in length; by Mr. F. 

 W. Choate, of Beverly, Mass. An annelid (Nereis) from the Grand Bank of 

 Newfoundland, and rounded balls of iron pyrites from Newfoundland; by Capt. 

 N. E. Atwood. 



February 1. Dried and inflated lungs of a snapping-turtle, and a frog inter- 

 mediate between the imperfect and perfect animal ; by Mr. John Homans, Jr. 

 Two teeth of the sperm whale; by Mr. William P. Anderson, of Roxbury, Mass. 



February 15. Several freshwater fishes, crustaceans, and mollusks from the 

 Sandwich Islands; two marmoset monkeys from Brazil; a malformed foetal 

 dog; a noddy tern; a gecko and reptilian egg from Lahaina; skin and viscera of 

 a New Zealand mocking-bird (P. Novce Zealandke, Gmel.) ; by Dr. C. F. Winslow. 

 Section of an elephant's tusk, in which an iron musket-ball was imbedded in a 



